Each for All: The Co-operative Connection

Today's episode of Each for All featured bicycle co-operatives! We were lucky to have in the studio Triane Tambay, who works and organizes via both Recyclistas, Victoria's collectively-run community bike shop, and the Bike Lab Society, an associated youth education program.

After kicking off with Toronto-based MC Abdominal's song "Pedal Pusher", we jumped right into a fascinating interview with Nancy, a member of the staff at the Urbane Cyclist, a worker-owned bike shop in Toronto. This interview was followed by a live discussion with Anders, a mechanic and apprentice at Natural Cycle,which is a worker-owned bicycle repair and courier company in Winnipeg.These two interviews were complimented by input from Triane, whocontributed her knowledge of local efforts at collective bike projectsas well as of bicycle culture.

Overall, it was a great episode with thoughtful insights intosustainable economic alternatives and the distance that a love ofcycling can take a community.

Natural Cycle (December 2007)

For more photos of Natural Cycle, please click here!

Co-ops in the News:

It's the annual fundraiser for the Island Biodiesel Cooperative!

A decade after violist Kenji Fuse created andperformedViolapalooza at the Poor Alex Theatre in Toronto, he revives thepopular show in Victoria, joined by cellist Laura Backstrom andfriends, for an eclectic mix of chestnuts and premieres. There willalso be a rare performance of the legendary instrument the Theremin, onwhich Kenji made his solo debut with the Victoria Symphony last springperforming the soundtrack to Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece,Spellbound. This concert is the annual fund-raiser for the IslandBiodiesel Co-op, and admission is by donation.

Info: 250.381-6502 oryk120@victoria.tc.ca